Did You Own Laserdisc? - Page 2

Before my time. I was a kid when VHS/Beta came out and my family was poor so VHS was all I knew about before going with DVD as an adult living on my own.

Yup, still own a CLD-97 and a few hundred LDs, many of which still haven't come out on DVD.

Five feet from me sits; what was at the time the coolest laserdisc player ever, it played both sides of two discs. For those of you too young to remember them clearly, some of the longer movies spanned two discs, with the LD-W1 you didn't have to get up to change them!

http://www.omegav.ntnu.no/~eldorko/p...erica/ldw1.htm

I bought a Denon Laserdisc player in the early 90s, maybe 92? Overall I was happy with it and the format. I sold my player and LD collection on ebay sometime around 2000.

Paramount seems a little slow going through their catalog to release on DVD. Or maybe their catalog is just so immense? Nah, it can't be that big.

I hung on to my laserdisc player and the only copy of Nate and Hayes on LD I ever found, until Paramount finally released it on DVD last year.

I still have my first laserdisc player that I bought in '89, packed up in my closet. I sold the bulk of my laserdisc collection on eBay about three years ago.

So, correct me if I'm wrong OP, but I think the point of this thread is that the majority of the people into high-def media owned laserdisc players, and are therefore either early adopters, or don't mind investing in niche formats.

I still own my two LD players, and all the movies I bought, literally hundreds.

At the time, there wasn't any place to rent LDs, so I ended up purchasing almost anything that I wanted to watch. Of course, a lot of those were from the cut-out bins at Camelot, where you could actually by some movies (not particularly good ones) for less than $15. With their stamp-card program I was able to parlay some of those purchases into discs that I really wanted.

I shudder to think how much money I spent on discs during that time.

Then along came DVDs, and I bought more and more of those, some replacing what I had bought on LD.

Just over a year ago, I decided to try NetFlix, and since then my purchasing has dropped off dramatically.

Six months ago, I bought and HD DVD player, and to date I've only bought two HD DVDs. With the convenience of NetFlix, I only plan on buying HD movies I really, really want. Frankly, I'd rather apply the money I had been spending on content and apply it toward system upgrades.

I don't know if this is a symptom of the changing market, or my own age - I have LDs that have never opened, and may not ever be opened, there's only so much time one can spend watching movies. I do expect that with each change in media format that my actual purchase of physical content will decline.

Scott

I got into audio in college, and never really got into video (had a VCR with a tube TV) till 2000, when I bought my first DVD player. Since then my priorities have changed (a lot). I don't spend much time critically listening to music anymore; but a lot watching movies (and HDTV via FiOs & TiVo S3).

Yup. My DVD/LD player is still connected and runs great. Well, save for the less than stellar picture quality......also still have ~75 LDs from my college years as well as the LD player I had back then.

1978-2001.

That things gotta be a tank. I have just a regular player and its bigger then the A1 above it.
That player would be great for some of those CAV discs I have although the definitve starwars discs span 5 sides so you'd need a triple deck for that...



... I think the result will and have shown a lot have LD players. This is a movie and home theater fourm. Folks are buying the best they can get in media. I've got a few formats myself with plans on buying more I find it fun to collect odd formats. I don't know why. Although LD is pretty cool. Some formats were just not needed like CED. Doing some reserch I've found their have been several VHS based formats as well. Most lived for a very short time. Primarily becoming demos and such

Still have. Actually picked up the majority of my collection since DVD came out getting a lot of those huge boxes that I never could afford when the prices came down.

I think I have 4 or 5 players all of which have been tweaked/fixed/tuned up by Kurtis Bahr and over a 1000 discs (a complete DTS collection, almost all the Disney boxset, almost all of the Universal Signature, 150-200 Criterion, all the SW releases, and lot of other Special Editions). The artwork and extras in some of those boxes are almost worth it to me even if I never touch the movies anymore.

yes, sir. Still do. all working players, only the higher end ones. Pioneer Elite CLD-97, HLD-X9, HLD-X0, LD-S2, maybe a couple of others I'm forgetting. I did open my last sealed LD over the weekend. North Dallas Forty remastered edition. Ah the chemical aroma of a freshly sealed LD as it's being opened. based on smell my guess it's a Pioneer Carson pressed disc! or it Kofu! jk

I had a Pioneer, a Magnavox, and currently a Pioneer CLD-V820 LaserKaraoke player with Autoflip capability all bought new for more than what I paid for either HD-XA1 or PS3. I recently used it to show Macross - Do You Remember Love to my kids since my DVD is still sealed.

Oh no, my sympathies.

Ooooh that smell. Can't you smell that smell

Wow, after submitting my reply, I was (admittedly, naively) surprised at the results. I guess most AVS regulars really are cutting edge consumers on a regular basis.

One of the best days of my life was watching the whole Star Wars difinitve collection on my Novabeam 100 on a flat wall!! My freinds and I had two pioneer LD's running (Elite 79's). I felt like the king (by the way I also had a laser active with JB Harold 2 for the turbo grafix and Genisis game pacs). I currently still have about 300 movies.
I run it though a Centerstage CS-1 looks good.

It belonged to the wife, came into the house via our marriage along with some karaoke discs a few years ago. Pioneer it still works. Looke okay if you send it through the faroujda in the Pioneer reciever. It has been on a couple of times in the last two years. So yes I own one.. but have never bought media for it.. it only does composite and stereo. So it is basically a dinosaur.

Hey, we sort of flip-flopped. I was into audio up until the late 70s but got out with the advent of the CD. I then concentrated on just watching a lot of movies on VHS, but I never bought a single tape. I also could not see the point of paying extra for LD. When DVD came out, I bought into that pretty quickly but really did not get into the high end. Since 2000, I have gotten pretty heavily into audio again, having acquired over 800 CDs since then. I build my own speakers and pretty much have taken over the living room , and soon will start building my own amps. The computer has revolutionized audio for me. Everything is on a harddrive and it sounds wonderful. I am excited about HDM, too. As soon as my current TV and player get replaced, I'm in!

Doug

I have 4 players that I use: HLD-X9, LD-S9, CLD-99 & Denon LA-3500. I have hundreds of LD's that I stille watch. That lot is heavy on Academy Ratio films and concert discs. I have a wide variety of other films and shows that aren't on today's formats or aren't as good on DVD. I have a dozen Muse LD's and a few Squeez LD's. For me, LD is here for the duration.

Still own two working players and plenty of discs.

Sanjay

sorry for my silly statements! I just have not opened a factory sealed LD in a while and forgotten about that distinct scent.

It's a 1979 film, but a 1998 pressing, so it's not a early 1980s, or mid 1990's disc thank goodness! no rot.

I did not own Laserdisc but knew someone who did.

Yes, still do. Love those covers.

Michael

+1

I still have the good old Panasonic LX-600 dual side player and a dozen LD's

The covers were sweet on a lot of the discs. The T2 CAV sets was nice. The later 5star DVD does it no justice.

Still have my Pioneer & about 80 discs, use it from time to time. I've pretty much replaced the must haves on DVD and a few HD-DVDs. I loved the 12" format those huge cardboard sleeves were so much fun for artwork.

Still own, got my first player (Yamaha, a Pioneer rebadge) sometime in 2000 or 2001 I think, mainly for things not available on DVD and for things I could get cheaply (such as anime LDs). Got another player eventually, a Pioneer DVD/LD, was hoping the component outputs worked for LD but they don't so at least I have a spare player.

I've probably got 25-30 discs, 40 tops.

Never forget hearing Apocalypse Now for the first time on Laser Disc

Helicopter scene! Classic first HD awe memory

I was one of those stubborn people who bought LDs to the end. My Pioneer-90 LD/DVD player served as my bridge into DVD, but even then I still bought LDs. I still have people sign my LDs over DVDs (I recently had Neil Jordon sign my LD of Interview with the Vampire) since they look so much nicer on display. I've even had people (a number of Babylon 5 staffers) exclaim that they didn't know it existed on DVD (Peter David) or even worse didn't know what they were!